Fingers in hair you flirt with flair,
Feel fine in fair romantic air,
Why then this sneer on face
And concealed suppressed stress?
What floats in soup’s her piece of hair.
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Epigram |02.07.2024| humour
Poet’s Note: A man loves flirting with his fingers in wife’s hair. Then when finds a piece of hair in his soup, gets annoyed. Based on a Hazal in Gujarati by Lalit Varma
Her gossip, holy dung,
Her scoring points, ho hung,
That get on my mind clung,
The rest is pretty fine.
Fine her stare of sharp eye,
Fine, full cheeks, dimpled nigh,
But for her battle cry,
The rest is pretty fine.
Let her utensils strike,
Grumbles as if on mike,
But for her moods on hike,
The rest is pretty fine.
Forever oven-fresh
Her barrage, verbal bash,
But for her vict’ry dash,
The rest is pretty fine.
At first, sham of her sigh,
Her voice then goes on high,
But for ‘her way or nay’,
The rest is pretty fine.
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Ghazal (Tongue-in-cheek) |08.06.2024| humour, wife
Based on a Gujarati Hazal by Sanjay Bapodariya (Sangee)
C-ouplet
H-ymn
E-xpresses
N-ice
S-ong
A-s
G-hazal
U-ses
I-ndependent
L-ines
O-f
N-atural
G-reatness
A-nd
N-iceness
Topic: Birthday of Chen Saguilongan (July 03)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
G-hazal
L-ines
O-f
R-hyme
I-n
A-crostic
S-imply
U-se
M-essage
A-nd
L-ove
P-ainting
O-ne
N-ice
G-low
Topic: Birthday of Gloria F. Sumalpong (June 26)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic